| Infertility, infertility treatment, and congenital malformations: Danish national birth cohort. | |
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PMID: 16893903 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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OBJECTIVES: To examine whether infertile couples (with a time to pregnancy of > 12 months), who conceive naturally or after treatment, give birth to children with an increased prevalence of congenital malformations. DESIGN: Longitudinal study. SETTING: Danish national birth cohort. PARTICIPANTS: Three groups of liveborn children and their mothers: 50,897 singletons and 1366 twins born of fertile couples (time to pregnancy < or = 12 months), 5764 singletons and 100 twins born of infertile couples who conceived naturally (time to pregnancy > 12 months), and 4588 singletons and 1690 twins born after infertility treatment. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Prevalence of congenital malformations determined from hospital discharge diagnoses. RESULTS: Compared with singletons born of fertile couples, singletons born of infertile couples who conceived naturally or after treatment had a higher prevalence of congenital malformations-hazard ratios 1.20 (95% confidence interval 1.07 to 1.35) and 1.39 (1.23 to 1.57). The overall prevalence of congenital malformations increased with increasing time to pregnancy. When the analysis was restricted to singletons born of infertile couples, babies born after treatment had an increased prevalence of genital organ malformations (hazard ratio 2.32, 1.24 to 4.35) compared with babies conceived naturally. No significant differences existed in the overall prevalence of congenital malformations among twins. CONCLUSIONS: Hormonal treatment for infertility may be related to the occurrence of malformations of genital organs, but our results suggest that the reported increased prevalence of congenital malformations seen in singletons born after assisted reproductive technology is partly due to the underlying infertility or its determinants. The association between untreated infertility and congenital malformations warrants further examination. |
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Authors:
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Jin Liang Zhu; Olga Basso; Carsten Obel; Camilla Bille; Jørn Olsen |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2006-08-07 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: BMJ (Clinical research ed.) Volume: 333 ISSN: 1756-1833 ISO Abbreviation: BMJ Publication Date: 2006 Sep |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2006-09-29 Completed Date: 2006-10-12 Revised Date: 2012-03-06 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8900488 Medline TA: BMJ Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 679 Citation Subset: AIM; IM |
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Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, University of Aarhus, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. zjl@soci.au.dk |
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Cohort Studies Congenital Abnormalities / epidemiology* Denmark / epidemiology Female Humans Infertility / epidemiology, therapy* Male Prevalence Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / adverse effects* Risk Factors |
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BMJ. 2006 Sep 30;333(7570):665-6
[PMID:
17008646
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Ugeskr Laeger. 2007 Mar 5;169(10):918-20
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17359737
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